From 4aefb93ab44e0555d134603da88137cd73e534b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Leonel=20C=C3=A2mara?= <leonelcamara@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 15:28:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #1752

---
 gluon/_compat.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gluon/_compat.py b/gluon/_compat.py
index f7562b12..1a68163d 100644
--- a/gluon/_compat.py
+++ b/gluon/_compat.py
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ def with_metaclass(meta, *bases):
 def to_unicode(obj, charset='utf-8', errors='strict'):
     if obj is None:
         return None
-    if not isinstance(obj, bytes):
+    if not hasattr(obj, 'decode') and not isinstance(obj, bytes):
         return text_type(obj)
     return obj.decode(charset, errors)